Reply To: Use Javascript API to set Post_Object Value

• Jeff

• September 11, 2020 at 6:48 am

Thanks John,

I noticed that after I entered into the forums and compared to my code and it was a typo here.

Widening the look at my code:

    acf.add_action('append', function( $el ){

// The Keys
        layoutKey = 'field_5f498c46f5b9f';       // Layout
        fieldKey = 'field_58dd1b4f4b510';     // Post Object, returns a post id
        
// Vars

        var firstFields = acf.getFields({type: 'post_object', key: fieldKey });

        console.log ('Fields Loaded ... New Layout Appended');

// The Count / Index of new entry (Remember the first row is 0)

        theCount = firstFields.length;
        newEntry = firstFields.length - 1;

// Do we have an object we can work with?  Set a Status -- Yes this works

        firstFields[newEntry].showNotice({
        text: 'This is the field we are trying to set',
        type: 'success',
        dismiss: true
    });

// Retrieve value from Previous Layout 

    for (i = 0; i < theCount; i++) {
            // Get the value from the previous record
            if (i == (theCount - 2)) {

                priorValue = firstFields[i].val();    // is the post_id of the selected item

                console.log(priorValue);
            }

            if (i == newEntry) {

// Try and set the post id to the field

                firstFields[i].val(priorValue);
                
// Trying this ... no change.
                firstFieldsi].trigger('change');

 

            }

}